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Healthcare, Clinical Pathways Importance, and QA

In 1992, for example, this organization issued a mandate that all hospital chief executive officers become familiar with continuou...

Decentralization and Respiratory Care Departments

In six pages this paper discusses the costs and quality of health care in a consideration of the impact of decentralization in thi...

Managed Care and the Rights of Patients

In four pages this paper discusses how heath care quality has deteriorated as a result of the managed health care system. Four so...

Health Care: Proposal

quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ways to reduce costs. It has also been noted that socialized health ca...

Quality Assurance and Nursing Management

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

The Interprofessional Approach to Nursing

records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...

Software for Health Information Management

The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...

Patients Going to Latin America for Treatment

Medical and dental costs have soared in the United States. Insurance plans are sometimes tricky in their language and they do not ...

Quality Costs

so as to enable production and service at the most economical levels which allow full customer satisfaction" (Feigenbaum, 1999). ...

Health Care: Changing The Way Services Are Delivered And Improving Quality Of Care

hospitals to reevaluate the way in which patient care is delivered and quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ...

Non-punitive Nursing Culture/Medical Errors

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

Reducing Medical Errors

focuses on methods to reduce errors and also improve the safety will focus on individual nursing skills and adherence to protocols...

Data Analytics Plan

Big Data Analytics is becoming more common in healthcare institutions because the outcomes include cost reduction, error reduction...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

Focusing on Process Involvement Rather than Individual Error in the Health Care Workplace

safety culture; hereafter "Trust thrives"). The culture is based on understanding and trust, and is further supported by a system ...

Critique of Bohomol, Ramos and D'Innocenzo (2009)

of a research article is "an impersonal evaluation of the strengths and limitations of the research being reviewed" (Coughlan, Cro...

Errors in Health Care

on the other hand, are certainly not immune from making errors. Everyone has heard horror stories of doctors amputating t...

Health Care Industry and Medication Errors

potential for depression. It stands to reason, therefore, that if nurses in critical care units are experiencing higher rates of ...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Using Crew Resource Management In Health Care

into other industries. Medicine and health care is one of the industries that have begun adopting the CRM process. In fact, the In...

Enhancing Total Quality Management at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam

quite a leap to effectively apply its principles to service industries, but TQM is as much at home in health care as it is in manu...

SELECTION ERRORS AND THEIR COSTS

Discusses the costs of false positive errors and false negative errors when it comes to recruitment and hiring. There are 3 source...

Learning from Errors - The Impact of Organizational Perception

If organizations and individuals are to learn from mistakes, the organization in which they occur need to have a positive approac...

Patient Safety and Human Factors

This research paper pertains to nursing errors that threaten patient safety, such as medication errors. Five pages in length, five...

Aviation Maintenance

mobile offices" (Pryma, 2002, p. NA). The portability of the laptops allows maintenance workers to bring them on the plane, if the...

Type I and Type II Errors and Statistical Testing Uses

to third world countries where there are problems such as hunger and famine. The development of foods that need lesser levels of w...

Reducing Errors in Research

necessary to choose the most appropriate method, in many cases this may include the use of screening and stratification in a numbe...

An Analysis of Medication Errors

it can be catastrophic. Indeed, in England and Wales recent medication errors have resulted in thirty-seven deaths (Nursing Stand...

Human Factors in Aircraft Repairs

of human error. Khalil (2007) reported that 70-80 percent of airline accidents are due to human error. Graeber (n.d.) put the rati...

Medication Errors

in control of the medication. Worse, not all medication errors are reported. If the wrong medication has reached the patient, the...